Volume 6 Issue 6
September 30, 2014
DRAGON NEWS T I F F I N U N I V E R S I T Y ’ S W E E K LY E L E C T R O N I C N E W S L E T T E R
Issue Highlights: Week’s
TU to Host National Security Lecture Featuring Dr. Montgomery McFate Free, Open to the Public
Activities Tif in University will host Dr. Montgomery McFate for a — pg. 2 discussion on how sociocultural knowledge is important Homecoming and controversial in the world of National Security on —pg. 4 Thursday, October 2 at 11 a.m. in Osceola Theater located Murphy Center inside Gillmor Student Center. & Pfeiffer Library News “Our students will see the importance of social sciences in —pg. 5 the careers they will be undertaking, and the public will get an opportunity to hear irst‐hand from one of the key advisers to General Da‐ Hispanic Heritage Month vid Petreaus,” said Jaimie Orr, Dean of the School of Criminal Justice and Social Sci‐ Celebration ences. —pg. 6 Dr. McFate is a cultural anthropologist, a defense and national security analyst, Good Morning World Lecture and former Science Advisor to the United States Army Human Terrain System pro‐ gram. She currently serves as the Minerva Chair at the Center for Naval Warfare —pg. 7 Studies at the US Naval War College. Advising Week —pg. 8 “Dr. McFate was at the forefront of a signi icant shift in how the US military ap‐ Sports News proached war – the development of the Counter‐Insurgency Warfare Manual,” —pg. 12—14 said Orr. “The work that Dr. McFate was a part of, and the work she continues to do at the Naval War College, is an important part of our national security effort.” Graduation Application McFate wrote Social Science Goes to War: The Human Terrain System in Iraq and —pg. 15 Afghanistan. She has held positions at a variety of think tanks, including RAND and Arts & Events Calendar the Institute for Defense Analysis. She also worked at the US Navy’s Of ice of Naval —pg. 16—18 Research, where she was awarded a Distinguished Public Service Award by the Secretary of the Navy. She has served on the Army Science Board and the Defense Classi ieds Science Board, and was an instructor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced In‐ —pg. 20 ternational Studies.
She received a B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, a PhD in Anthropolo‐ gy from Yale University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. For more information contact Jaimie Orr at orrrj@tif in.edu. 1